Man charged with yelling profanities at police dog

PORT CLINTON – A city man was charged with having drugs and yelling profanities at officers and a police dog Monday.

The 60-year-old man faces one misdemeanor count each of possession of dangerous drugs, assaulting a police dog, drug paraphernalia, disorderly conduct while intoxicated and drug abuse.

Police were called at 7:56 p.m. to the 1100 block of East Third Street after a caller reported a man was pushing a bike on the sidewalk and appeared that he was about to collapse, according to a Port Clinton police report.

Officers asked the man, who they said appeared to be unsteady on his feet, for identification and offered to make arrangements to get him somewhere safe, according to the report. He refused to give any identification, so officers arrested him, the report shows.

While arresting him, they found two pill bottles, one containing marijuana and one containing a prescription medication, according to the report.

At the police station, he reportedly began yelling at the Port Clinton police K-9, Spike, causing the dog to become agitated and bark, officers said. He then repotedly continued to yell profanities at the dog and then made comments containing profanity to officers, according to the report.